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A conservative US talk show host has come down heavily on Fox News presenter Bill O’Reilly who last week announced that he had changed his stance to support equal marriage.

Steve Deace from Conservative Talk Radio discussed the issue with Religious Right activist Bob Vander Plaats, during which he said Bill O’Reilly’s changing stance on marriage equality was a “hanging offense”, and that he was a “charlatan” and a “fraud”.

“But when you are trying to profit off of the very people you are betraying and you have tried to condescend them and patronize them for years and then at the moment they probably need you to return the favor of all the money they made you over the last fifteen years the most, you stab them in the back, throw them under the bus and use the enemy’s own language against them. To me that’s a hanging offense; that is a hanging offense.”

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